Lots of good and smart people at HP. We are getting close too and I am looking forward to getting past all the change related to the company separation.

Cons

Expect to be treated like a commodity. No one past your working peers will know you because of the high employee to leadership ratio. Administrative management processes are a joke because leaders don't get to know their employees (e.g. performance feedback process, salary review process.) Back to the office policy is a joke (e.g. there is no value in traveling over an hour to the office to work when your work group is not in that office).

Advice to Management

Good luck with the company separation. I hope it delivers the results to the stakeholders, clients and business that is needed.

I used to love my job, the people I work with are great, but HP changed that. I am being outsourced to a staffing company because HP thinks they can save money this way.

Cons

Based on the current culture at HP (Good ol'Boy network) I could not recommend HP for employment.

Advice to Management

HP used to be a company worth working for. For the most part you purchase technology, there has not been much home grown tech lately, you are just shortsidedly looking to boost stock price for the top 3%ers, despite the employees. The values are just a front to the public, you are ruining the HP Name.

The biggest problem with HP is poor management. The trend for the past few years has been to play musical management chairs, giving the illusion of change and "new blood". Management rewards people for process improvements, but nothing is improved. Instead, people are paid to fix problems caused by management, or to fix problems they created. The current CEO will step on anyone to improve her legacy. Finally, HP has made the desktop relevant once again with the "back to the office" initiative. I think HP will be the only company buying desktops. Also, monthly management meetings are Kool-Aid and propaganda festivals; they treat people like mindless children, thinking we will believe anything they say.

Advice to Management

The BOD needs to clean house and get rid of the Dell management that is infecting the company, they need to stop sacrificing good employees at the alter of "collaboration", and they need to return to the HP way, which was about recognizing the importance of a companies greatest resource: people.